Category: baptisms
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Impressions of my first mission trip to Tanzania
Robin Eggerman,Immanuel Lutheran Church Lockwood, MO My first reaction was one of wonder and amazement. The people were so warm and welcoming. We were always greeted with wonderful smiles, enthusiastic handshakes and often times heart-felt hugs. When our teams visited homes, the families were always happy to greet us and stopped whatever they were doing…
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Change
Sharon R. Hyde, Christ the King Lutheran Church,Memphis, TN June 2018 This year the first change was our international airport would not be Atlanta as it has been the past two times I went. Check . . . easy peasy, that change didn’t bother me at all. Next, this would be the first trip not going…
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Now I have a name…
Note: This is a story from the trip in 2017. On one of our visits to the bomas in the bush, I was again paired with fellow missionary, Laurie Gent, Pastor Frank Mdindi, along with some locals evangelists. The locals knew who needed a visit and acted as a scribe to record the people visited. Pastor Frank was…
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First time missionary reflects on seeing 80+ baptisms in one day….
On Monday, June 5, 2018 I started sharing the Gospel with my team leader Joe Kuhlman. from Tulsa, OK. We shared with several young men as we went through our area of the village. As we were meeting with another man, one of the young men that we had just baptized came to us and…